Expert: Bill Clinton won't be vetoed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Restrictions placed on former U.S. President Bill Clinton's speaking engagements probably won't be enforceable, an expert says.

Clinton agreed to have his speeches and charitable activities vetted by the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama in return for nominating his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., to be U.S. secretary of state. The goal of the restrictions is to avoid having Bill Clinton undercut foreign policy positions taken by his wife and Obama, the Washington publication Politico reported Tuesday.

But while the future Obama administration may flag its concerns to the Clintons, they likely won't be able to veto the former president's proposed activities, an expert told Politico.

That will leave Bill Clinton to "basically self-censor and stand down from some lucrative engagements where the appearance will be enough to create questions," Mark Dillen, an international media consultant and former senior foreign service officer in the Clinton state department, told Politico.

Clinton netted more than $10 million from speaking engagements for his charitable work last year, including more than $4.6 million from 20 foreign speeches, documents show.